FRENCH INDO-CHINA

to the of collaboration provided they could

the group's policy. la their nervous zeal for iodepen-

lose of their mutual interest in fighting high

arbitrary decrees, and the concessions regime.

is a of professional solidarity,

could be developed with greater profit, and

has not yet adequately done by the government. A planter

a record of the experiments he conducted over a

twenty-year period, this is the nearest approach to systematic

O»e of the worst obstacles in developing rubber are the isokted

of rubber planters* who frantically experiment to

wealth. Effective experimentation on only be

by with adequate capital—which means either the

or big companies. The small planters represent, in such

the of routine, a spirit of mutual distrust, and a

raico-operative undisciplined self-interest. In 1927, and

in 1929, of the Michelin Company produced a

They their rubber purchases in the

of inferior quality. The small pknters were in-

did to their rubber of a better or more

aid, unique feature of French policy, is partly

10 the to a recognition of the evils of

It k of the to make France with her colonies

a therefore, is to produce rubber not

for in the to supply France, who will

no be on foreign resources. This is not only

a in of but an insurance against the

It that induced the

to aid to the whose products fell the

nd credit to colonists

bj die its aM apportioned to

the of By 1935 the state aid

to to 7,500^000 and a bonus was also

en such generosity was

$ for the bad already paid a

iugh for

Tbt a the of land

wig Oat of concessions

ttdgr From

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